Who had the bright fucking idea of bringing this retarded excuse for a character back? She was hated back in the day for being a lame fic-like idea and IDW had just repeated that same mistake with another character just a short while earlier. The whole Kirby thing was shut down exactly because it was a lame concept for a character, please stop trying to make "the fifth turtle" happen, it's like the "fifth member of the Fantastic Four" or "the fourth Donald Duck nephew" you don't fuck with it. Ever watched the Poochie episode of the Simpsons? The entire point of that episode is that you don't try to shoehorn in a new main character nobody asked for if there is nothing wrong with the existing dynamic.

>But muh female representation!
1. The franchise has plenty of female characters like April, Karai, Renet, Radical, Jhanna, Angel, Starlee etc etc etc. You don't need to make up a female turtle to fill the role of being a female.
2. If you have trouble relating to a barely humanoid sewer freak created by aliens, I don't the gender is what's keeping you from doing so.
3. It's pretty damn obvious that if you are making this argument in the first place, you just have a weird agenda to see that the franchise must have one of the title characters be female, which isn't really a worthwhile goal because a female lead is pretty meaningless when it comes to determining any actual quality. Shit like the Bechdel test really needs to be acknowledged for the dishonest and shallow ideas they are.